The match will see world number one and number two sides England and Canada go head to head with WXV silverware on the line this Saturday in Vancouver.
Tyson Beukeboom, who became Canada’s most-capped women’s player of all time during the Pacific Four Series, will reach a new milestone this weekend in WXV.
Six members of the Canada squad that secured a sevens silver medal at Paris 2024 will be part of the country’s push for WXV 1 glory on home soil.
Scarlets have confirmed that lock Alex Craig has signed a new deal with the club one year after joining.
He also queried rugby’s talent identification, taking issue that it could miss out on a player such as Alex Dombrandt who only signed his professional contract at the age of 22.
First-choice England scrum-half Alex Mitchell has been ruled out of next Saturday’s round three Guinness Six Nations game away to Scotland.
Alex Sanderson has set his sights on a home tie after Sale Sharks secured their place in the Gallagher Premiership play-offs.
Title-chasing Sale have signed Tom Ellis with immediate effect. The Bath forward had been on loan at Saracens, but he has now moved to Manchester ahead of the Sharks' end-of-season bid to clinch their first Gallagher Premiership title since 2006.
What’s fascinating– with five rounds of this new season played – is that there is so much we still don’t know. The current Premier 15s table is an utterly alien creature to long-term followers of the league.
It was quite an eye-catching statistic, prop forward Ellis Genge emerging as the England player that made the most metres away to France other than Marcus Smith during last Saturday’s Guinness Six Nations defeat.
